immediatism

American  

[ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uhm] / ɪˈmi di əˌtɪz əm /

noun

U.S. History.

1. a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.

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Other Word Forms

• immediatist noun

Etymology

Origin of immediatism

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

Example Sentences

The best-known radical abolitionist was William Lloyd Garrison, a white Massachusetts reformer who had worked for temperance and colonization before free blacks in Baltimore converted him to immediatism.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Garrison also preached immediatism: the moral demand to take immediate action to end slavery.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

He favoured immediatism, but he differed sharply from the Garrisonian abolitionists, who abhorred the federal Constitution and favoured secession.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

"The spirits of the little company" may have risen superior to the weather, but they did not rise superior to the preamble, with the principle of immediatism incorporated in it.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry